This unit serves as an introduction to contemporary feminist art history, criticism and theory. It focuses on the various contributions that the debate around feminism has made to the methodologies of art historians and to critical theory. Several seminars are devoted to an examination of feminist accounts of the Western visual tradition. The unit also offers an account of the development and range of recent feminist theory, criticism, scholarship and art practice. Among the issues debated are contemporary constructions of desire and visual culture, pornography, psychoanalytic theory, and the conjunction of feminism and postmodernism. -- Course Website
Prerequisites: at least one Level 1 humanities unit
